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brick - use in sentences
Converse of object
- reclaim: March 2004 The York stone was lifted and a new retaining wall was built from reclaimed bricks to match those used in the house.
- glaze: The remains of glazed brick can be seen at points all round the interior.
- hurl: Fans hurled concrete, bricks, coins - anything they could find.
- throw: They have been forced to sleep in their hallway to avoid repeated bricks thrown through their windows which they believe may eventually kill them.
Adjective modifier
- Red: Red brick built with a tiled roof in a nice area with a garden shed.
- red: Its original designer, Sir Horace Jones, wanted red brick.
- mellow: Look out for steep tiled gables, overhanging upper stories and mellow brick and plastering.
- hand-made: New, hand-made bricks are procured in advance of the work, due to the long lead-in period for their manufacture.
- sun-dried: In Palestine in the time of Jesus, ordinary dwellings were constructed of sun-dried bricks of mud or clay on a stone foundation.
Modifies a noun
- wall: The front is enclosed mainly with brick wall, with a small area of fencing.
- chimney: It was wood & thatch with a brick chimney.
- fireplace: Brick fireplace with cast iron log burning stove on a brick hearth.
- kiln: Clewer can be seen to have brick kilns on a site on the south side of what is now Maidenhead Road.
- plinth: Ancillary features:- lychgate on red brick plinths supporting oak timbers.
- facade: I assume the brick facade is to make it appear more a part of the local architecture, innocuous at first sight.
Noun used with modifier
- mud: In the early 18th Dynasty mud brick chapels are common.
- creme: The pitched-roof crème brick building on the left has never had canopy protection.
- adobe: San Juan San Juan is a small village built out of adobe bricks ( i.e. mud bricks ).
Preposition: with
- dressing: The Nurses ' Home is of three stories, built of brick with stone dressings under steeply pitched plain clay tiled roofs.
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